Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 06:47:36 -0400 From: ltd@world.std.com (Lenard T Diggins) Today's Topics: Re: San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Information Roadblock REQUEST: AIDS Education Info Same-Sex Rights in Ontario Re: Lesbian Avengers/Austin Same-Sex Rights for Ontarians Re: Same-Sex Rights for Ontarians ESSIAC Re: Essiac Source Needed ESSIAC ESSIAC Essiac: a natural herbal alternative cancer treatment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: San Francisco AIDS Foundation's Information Roadblock From: tom_limoncelli@Warren.MENTORG.COM Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 11:23:39 +0500 On Apr 24, 0:00, Automatic digest processor wrote: > Subject: GLB-NEWS Digest - 22 Apr 1994 to 23 Apr 1994 > Does this mean that Frank and Studds are dropping public accomodations from > the civil rights bill? Ken It means that the new national strategy is to push through the bill one part at a time. Jobs is first. I don't know if public accomodations, housing, or finance/banking is next. -Tom ------------------------------ Subject: REQUEST: AIDS Education Info From: jonl@dolphin.upenn.edu (Jon Lasser) Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:45:46 -0400 (EDT) Safeguards develops HIV/AIDS education programming for gay and bisexual men in the Philadelphia area. In an effort to improve our workshops, we are gathering information from other AIDS educators about a variety of issues. If you have information regarding any of the following items, please respond to jonl@dolphin.upenn.edu. We would be happy to share our resources with you as well. Thanks in advance! -- self-esteem and safer sex -- sero-discordant couples (one partner HIV+, the other HIV-) -- workshop evaluation tools -- needs assessments -- bibliographies -- information on conferences Sincerely, Jon Lasser jonl@dolphin.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Subject: Same-Sex Rights in Ontario From: LGBIC@QUCDN.QueensU.CA Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:56 EDT **NON-ONTARIO, CANADA RESIDENTS SHOULD DISREGARD THIS UNLESS INTERESTED!** I was talking to a friend of mine last night, and apparently the NDP is attempting to push through changes to over 70 bills across the Ontarian legal spectrum, with the end result being same-sex relationships entrenched in the Ontario Human Rights Code. This is definitely a cause for celebration... but there is a lot to be done first, to make sure that this does not go the way of the 1986 attempts. Letters, and phone calls are imperative. The spectacle of the blasted right-wing MPPs standing up and reading letter after letter of hate mail must not be allowed to be repeated. The toll-free number for Queen's Park is 1-800-269-3747. Try to call from a touch-tone phone as an automated system is used. You will be asked to respond to several things, the last of which should be the extension of the person you are trying to reach. I have a short list of MPP's extensions to post here, but if you perservere it is possible to find out the number from the automated system. Please post any other numbers that you discover. Bob Rae (Premier) -51941 Gary Wilson (Kingston and the Islands) -53335 Fred Wilson (Frontenac Addington) -57877 Bob Runciman (Leeds Grenville) -53868 Hugh O'Neil (Quinte) -57135 Dianne Poole (Eglinton) -53634 Lyn McLeod (Leader of the Opposition) -57155 Your phone calls will be logged; they are necessary and appreciated. PLEASE CALL! (go ahead and contact as many MPPs as you want... don't restrict yourself to your own riding) *thank you* ************************************************************************* * DarkTri, for LGBIC * * * (and the LGBA) * The Rainbow Flag forever! * * LGBIC@qucdn.queensu.ca * * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Lesbian Avengers/Austin From: Ray Russ Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 12:05:12 -800 (PDT) You might try asking them at the following: sisterspir@aol.com On Tue, 17 May 1994, Clay M. Bond wrote: > At 04:44 PM 5/15/94, GRRRL@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu wrote: > > >to all those who responded to the message regarding the Lesbian Avenger > >Pride Ride though the South to Stonewall 25, please resend your email > >address and whether you were requesting info or wanted to help, etc... > >we had a slight problem and all the messages were deleted... > >thanks. xoxo, the Lesbian Avengers > > Speaking of, what happened to the plans for a women's music festival > down in Mississippi? > > > "He leaves the lid up, and I'm convinced it's a form of latent hostility." > "I don't want to minimize your pain or anything, but call me when he starts > beating you up and fucking your sister." > Brett Butler > ------------------------------ Subject: Same-Sex Rights for Ontarians From: LGBIC@QUCDN.QueensU.CA Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 20:31 EDT (thanks to Patrick for doing the same sort of post-and getting the # right!) Ok, I'm a loser. *grin* The toll-free number that I posted earlier for Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada, should be... 1-800-268-3747 Also, we have come across some information that may mean some of the extensions provided are less than current. So, use the automated system to its full advantage! *grin* Thanks for your reading time and patience... ************************************************************************* * DarkTri, for LGBIC * * * (and the LGBA) * The Rainbow Flag forever! * * LGBIC@qucdn.queensu.ca * * ************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Same-Sex Rights for Ontarians From: Lambda Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 21:24:50 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 19 May 1994 LGBIC@QUCDN.QueensU.CA wrote: > (thanks to Patrick for doing the same sort of post-and getting the # right!) > > Ok, I'm a loser. *grin* > > The toll-free number that I posted earlier for Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada, > should be... > > 1-800-268-3747 > > Also, we have come across some information that may mean some of the > extensions provided are less than current. So, use the automated system to > its full advantage! *grin* > > Thanks for your reading time and patience... > And while we're at it, the on-line government directory lists the Premier's internet e-mail address as: raebo@epo.gov.on.ca I haven't used this, and it may be taken out of service, but it's worth a try. The Attorney General is not listed, nor are any of the opposition politicians offices [they operate in an Apple world - they government functions in MS-DOS - it's probably deliberate to frustrate leaks] lambda ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Walker | single GWM - - - - - - Toronto ON Canada | runner \ / lambda@io.org | cyclist \ / | QUEER \/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Subject: ESSIAC From: Alan S. Evans Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 18:45:58 -0400 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 18:45:58 -0400 From: Alan S. Evans To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: ESSIAC The archives of the HOLISTIC list has some files about Essiac. Unfortunately, to get them, you have to be a member of the list. The following commands should work (I haven't tried it exactly like this because I am already on the list). Send to LISTSERV@SIUCVMB or LISTSERV@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU, with Subject: blank SUB HOLISTIC GET ESSIAC FAQ GET ESSIAC HOL GET ESSIAC PT2 SIGNOFF HOLISTIC [if you don't want to stay on the list] ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Essiac Source Needed From: JELLIOTT@ac.dal.ca Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 00:00:41 -0300 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 00:00:41 -0300 From:JELLIOTT@ac.dal.ca To: rosaphil@phantom.com Subject: Re: Essiac Source Needed Dear Anna, I have been using Essiac since December, 1993 for my Stage IV (terminal) colon cancer. It is freely available in Canada, but not in the USA, I understand. Stores in Canada can't ship it to individuals in the USA, but I may be able to mail you some as an individual to individual mailing if you were interested. Does it work? I don't know. It seems to be the only option for me as I have exhausted all chemotherapy options. So I am putting all my faith in Essiac and hoping. It comes in a powdered form and requires boiling with water for a few minutes, being allowed to stand for 4 hours, and a further short boiling. After being refrigerated overnight, the liquid is poured off the sediment and put in a bottle. About 10 days supply is made at a time. The Essiac is refrigerated until used when a few ounces are mixed with equal parts boiling water to make the tea. Let me know if you want me to mail you some. A month's supply runs around $100 Canadian which is about $75 in U.S. funds. Regards, Jean Elliott P.S. I think there are versions of Essiac in the States by different names, but they don't contain all the ingredients of the original formula. ------------------------------ Subject: ESSIAC From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 22:07:58 CST =09Hope this is useful to people who need it. Knowledge is strength. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 22:07:58 CST From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: ESSIAC From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu The recipe for ESSIAC... Ingredients: 6 1/2 cups of dry burdock root (cut) 16 oz. sheep sorrel (powdered) 1 oz. Turkish=BAor indian=BA rhubarb root(powdered) =BARheum palmatum=BA 4 oz. slippery elm bark (powdered) 2 gallons (256 fl. oz) mountain spring water Utensils: Two, 3 gallon stainless steel pots with lids one strainer to suit size of pot one large mixing bowl sixteen, 16 oz. dark brown sealable glass bottles suitable funnel Method: 1. mix herbs together 2. pour water into one of the pots and bring to a hard boil 3. weigh out 8 oz. of the mixed herbs, dd to the boiling water 4. place lid on pot and boil for 10 minutes 5. turn off heat and allow to stand for six hours 6. stir well and allow to stand for a further six hours 7. re-heat until just to the boiling point, then turn off 8. remove from heat and strain liquid into second pot 9. take the funnel and with the liquid still hot, fill and seal all the bot= tles 10. store all abottles in a cool, dry place. take four tablespoons of ESSIAC with four tablespoons of mountain spring wa= ter on an empty stomach every night before bedtime. Keep open bottle refrigerated. You can obtain ESSIAC herbs from: Anchorage Neuro-spinal Clinic Omni Medical Center New Action Products provides a bulk package of the herbs(1 mo. supply) and a brewing kit. Write 145 Ontario St., Buffalo, NY 14207 or call: (716)873-6600; fax (716) 873-6621 There is a good file available somewhere in gopherspace. I will try to fin= d h the address. A Good luck, Mick ------------------------------ Subject: ESSIAC From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 22:07:58 CST =09Hope this is useful to people who need it. Knowledge is strength. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 22:07:58 CST From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: ESSIAC From: yoder@siucvmb.siu.edu The recipe for ESSIAC... Ingredients: 6 1/2 cups of dry burdock root (cut) 16 oz. sheep sorrel (powdered) 1 oz. Turkish=BAor indian=BA rhubarb root(powdered) =BARheum palmatum=BA 4 oz. slippery elm bark (powdered) 2 gallons (256 fl. oz) mountain spring water Utensils: Two, 3 gallon stainless steel pots with lids one strainer to suit size of pot one large mixing bowl sixteen, 16 oz. dark brown sealable glass bottles suitable funnel Method: 1. mix herbs together 2. pour water into one of the pots and bring to a hard boil 3. weigh out 8 oz. of the mixed herbs, dd to the boiling water 4. place lid on pot and boil for 10 minutes 5. turn off heat and allow to stand for six hours 6. stir well and allow to stand for a further six hours 7. re-heat until just to the boiling point, then turn off 8. remove from heat and strain liquid into second pot 9. take the funnel and with the liquid still hot, fill and seal all the bot= tles 10. store all abottles in a cool, dry place. take four tablespoons of ESSIAC with four tablespoons of mountain spring wa= ter on an empty stomach every night before bedtime. Keep open bottle refrigerated. You can obtain ESSIAC herbs from: Anchorage Neuro-spinal Clinic Omni Medical Center New Action Products provides a bulk package of the herbs(1 mo. supply) and a brewing kit. Write 145 Ontario St., Buffalo, NY 14207 or call: (716)873-6600; fax (716) 873-6621 There is a good file available somewhere in gopherspace. I will try to fin= d h the address. A Good luck, Mick ------------------------------ Subject: Essiac: a natural herbal alternative cancer treatment From: Posted for Dr. Gary L. Glum 1 310-271-9931 Date: 10 Apr 93 17:03:41 GMT I don't know the accuracy of this but plese post for those who might benefit. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 19:59:26 -0500 From: CWIS Guest Logon To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Essiac: Natural Herbal Cancer Treatment From: Posted for Dr. Gary L. Glum 1 310-271-9931 Subject: Essiac: a natural herbal alternative cancer treatment Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 93 17:03:41 GMT Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <- Lines: 983 Poster of this article is doing so as a favor, and is not responsible for it's content and is held harmless for any information in this article (posting). --- * --- This file containes four sections: 1. An Introduction to the book Calling of An Angel by Dr. Gary L. Glum. 2. The Essiac Formula. 3. Address and phone number for more information. 4. An interview with Dr. Glum from "Wildfire" Magazine. --- * --- Section 1. Introduction chapter to a book called ____"Calling of An Angel"____ "The true story of Rene Caisse and an indian herbal medicine called ESSIAC-Nature's cure for cancer." (isbn# 0-9620364-0-4) By Dr. Gary L. Glum. Published by Silent Walker Publishing, Los Angeles (c) Copyright 1988, all rights reserved. Permission to copy, transmit, and share the _introduction_chapter_ has been granted by the author. Dr. Glum can be reached by telephone at 310-271-9931 For further information. Introduction (to book): This is the story of a woman named Rene Caisse. For more than 50 years, until her death in 1978 at the age of 90, she treated thousands of cancer patients, most of them written off by doctors as terminally ill, with her own secret herbal formula. She called it Essiac - Cassie spelled backwards - and she brewed the tea herself, alone in the kitchen. Her patients swore by her. They were devoted. Men and women who believed she cured them of cancer told their friends and families, wrote letters to doctors and politicians, swore affidavits, testified before the Canadian parliement and pleaded with Rene Caisse to supply them with more Essiac when they needed it. Some husbands and wives of patients who died wrote Rene letters thanking her profoundly for making life easier - free of pain - and longer for their loved ones. Her funeral in the village of Bracebridge, about 170 kilometers north of Toronto, was attended by hundreds of people, including former patients Rene had treated for terminal cancer as far back as the 1930's and who were still on their feet to bury her and tell her stories. I'm convinced that Essiac works. It has potent - and preventive - power. It is a gift from nature. I've seen a small part of the evidence with my one eyes, and I've experienced Essiac's power as a healthful tonic in my own life. I suffered from chronic bronchitis until a few years ago when I first heard of Essiac and tried it myself. Within a few days my cough disappeared and it hasn't returned. I still drink the Essiac. It tastes like what it is, an herbal tea. About as plain and mild as any of the other herbal teas from around the world you can buy at any supermarket. I've never felt better. All though Canada and in parts of the United States today there are people of all ages who are absolutely convinced that Essiac saved their lives or the lives of friends and loved ones. But you can't buy it in any supermarket. Claims have been made - since about 1925, in fact - that Essiac is an effective treatment for cancer. So the governments of North America have classified it as a "drug." The Canadian government almost legalized its use by Rene in 1939, and has gone through fits and starts ever since in deciding how to handle the situation. The policy has ranged from threatening to arrest Rene if she didn't close her clinic to promising her publicly - on the record, in the press - that she wouldn't be arrested if she would agree to keep her clinic open, thus quieting the public clamor that arose after the government threatened to shut her down. In the last decade, the Canadian government has classified Essiac as an "experimental drug," and then an "experimental drug that failed to show promise", and today - as Dr. Hendrick's letter shows - the internal battles are still going on in Canada over the future of Essiac. In the U.S., A 1978 class action suit in federal court in Detroit seeking to authorize the importation of Essiac for cancer treatment was defeated by the government. Other than that, the U.S. government hasn't faced that much pressure about Essiac. There are probably high level officials in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - and the National Cancer Institute - who make life and death decisions about cancer drugs who could honestly say they've never heard of Essiac. I hope they'll take the time to read this book. I don't claim that Essiac is a miraculous panacea, capable of curing all cancers in all people, nor do I believe that. Rene Caisse didn't even believe that. She didn't claim Essiac as a "cure for cancer." Her former patients were the ones who put forward that claim, strenuously and over many decades. What Rene maintained was that Essiac caused regression in some cancerous tumors, the total destruction of others, prolonged life in most cases and - in virtually every case - significantly diminished the pain and suffering of cancer patients. If the testimonials of Rene's former patients, including those sworn under oath, have any credibility at all - and when I present then, I think you'll agree they do - then Essiac's powers as a pain reliever in cancer patients are nothing short of phenomenal. In sixty years of personal accounts, the easing of agony and an increased sense of well-being - often to the point of getting through the day without narcotics - is one of the predominant themes. You hear it over and over again, and always told with a deep sense of gratitude. Rene fought almost her whole adult life against overwhelming odds and under incredible pressures, some of them self-imposed, to establish those simple facts as accepted wisdom. She never gave up her fight. But for one woman many years ago to persuade the medical and legal institutions of North America that a natural treatment for cancer - based on herbs that grow wild - might make more sense than the accepted means of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy...she might as well have been telling them in an earlier century that the earth is round. Remember: Rene was fighting cancer with a natural treatment in an era when the conventional wisdom of the medical establishment denied even that diet might be a factor in causing cancer. It's hard to believe, knowing what we know now - and what has become conventional wisdom - but for generations those doctors who preached dietary causes of cancer were dismissed by most physicians as quacks. So was the medical establishment to make of this woman - who wasn't even a licensed doctor - who preached that a cancer treatment was to be found in plants that grow in the wild? My goal in this book is simple: I want to tell people the story of this ordinary woman's extraordinary life and share the knowledge of Essiac so that people can make their own informed decisions about what its future should be. I don't pretend to have all the answers about how Essiac works, or the final scientific proof that it dose. There are large gaps, as I'll explain, in my own knowledge of this story. Much of it remains a mystery to me, raising deeply intriguing questions which I would love to see answered. But I do know that there is already enough evidence that Essiac has benefited cancer patients in the last 60 years to warrant those controlled clinical studies that some physicians - such as Dr. Hendrick - have advocated for decades. The risk to the public would certianly appear to be minimal. There seems to be universal agreement among the doctors and scientists who have done investigations of Essiac - and the patients who have used it - that Essiac is non-toxic and without harmful side effects. Rene Caisse drank it every day for half a century and some of her family and close friends always made sure they had had their daily cup. Not even Rene Caisse'e worst enemies ever put forward the argument that people were hurt by drinking the tea. This non-toxic nature of Essiac is an important consideration in making it a treatment worthy of serious investigation. Many of the conventional accepted chemotherapy drug actually come with toxic warning labels. One of the commonly administered cancer drugs is the chemical Fluorouracil(5FU). Note this warning on the manufacturer's brochure: "Precautions: Florouracil is a highly toxic drug with a narrow margin of safety. Therefore, patients should be carefully supervised since therapeutic response is unlikely to occur without some evidence of toxicity....Severe hematological toxicity, gastrointestinal hemorrhage and even death may result from the Fluorouracil despite meticulous selection of patients and careful adjustment of dosage." As if that weren't bad enough, the officially accepted "experimental drugs," on which the government and the drug companies lavish huge sums of developmental funds, can be even worse. According to a 1981 Washington Post story, a major American drug company spent significant amounts of money and years of research on a weed from India they hoped would have a beneficial effect on certian forms of leukemia - even though it was known in advance that the weed caused severe liver damage in livestock. And sure enough, when the weed was synthesized into a chemical and given to cancer patients, there were reports that it was helping some people - and killing others. But there was nothing unusual in that. "We knew from the beginning that this caused toxicity in animals," the Post quoted a U.S. Food and Drug Administration official as saying "Almost all investigational cancer drugs as highly toxic." As you read this story and wonder - as I did many, many times while I was researching it - if an herbal compound developed by one one woman could possibly - even possibly - be safer and more effective than the best of what medical science is already bringing us, please keep this quote in mind from that 1981 series of Washington Post articles: "Over the last decade, more than 150 experimental drugs have been given to tens of thousands of cancer patients under the sponsorship of the U.S. Federal Government's National Cancer Institute. Many of these drugs have come from a list of highly toxic industrial chemicals, including pesticides, herbicides and dyes.... those who take them, the experimental drugs - along with leading to hundreds of deaths - have elicited a nightmarish list of serious adverse reactions. including kidney failure, liver failure, heart failure, respiratory distress, destruction of bone marrow so the body can no longer make blood, brain damage, paralysis, seizure, coma and visual hallucinations. "So little is known about many if these chemicals that doctors have found these ironic results: In some cases the experimental drug actually stimulated tumor growth rather than stopped the cancer - and in other tests, doctors and researchers found that the exprimental drug itself caused cancer." Rene Caisse wouldn't have been surprised to read that. Her own feelings about the use of these toxic drugs, after a lifetime spent fighting cancer, were blunt and nasty: "Chemotherapy should be a criminal offense," she told one reporter. Though the medical establishment has not recognized Rene Caisse's herbal treatment for cancer as legitimate, there is more than ample precedent for the approach she was taking. According to a 1987 NOVA documentary on "The Hidden Power Of Plants." aired in the Public Broadcasting System: "Indeed, the history of medicine has been largely the story of plants and the potent chemicals they produce. Around the world, traditional healers, using plant medications, provide health care to eighty percent of the human population - over four billion people." Since the 1950's doctors have been using an alkaloid called vincristine - which comes from a evergreen plant known as the periwinkle - in the treatment of childhood leukemia and other cancers. Digitalis, which comes from the leaves of the foxglove plant, is an important heart medication. According to the NOVA documentary, "Over 25 percent of the drugs in the U.S. still contain plant materials as their principal active ingredients." Throughout history there are countless examples of people discovering the healing properties of nature before science could understand them - or even believe that they existed. South American Indians treated fevers, especially malarial fevers, with an herbal tea made from cinchona bark. Scientists eventually discovered that cinchona bark is nature'a source of quinine. Science didn't discover that vitamin C prevented scurvy. English sailors discovered that without even knowing it. All they knew was that that they'd better take some cirtus fruits - lemons, limes - along with them on long ocean voyages. That's why the English came to be called "limeys." Science didn't even discover vitamin C until 1932. For centuries American Indians treated various aches and pains with an herbal tea made from white willow bark. It must have seemed terribly primitive to the doctors who first heard of it. They were trusting their science the Indians were trusting nature. But eventually science caught up. Today, synthesized and refined white willow bark is the basis for what we might call aspirin. Always, in all cultures, there was what might be called "living proof" of the medicinal value of plants long before there was scientific proof - and acceptance. Living proof, of course, is not acceptable to the scientific community. Not even the testimony of ordinary individuals sworn to oath, meets the rigorous standards of scientific proof. But no matter what happens in the scientific world, living proof will be what passes from person to person and prevents Essiac from dying out altogether in the modern world. Rene Caisse's files are filled with letters from people all over North America testifying to life-saving experiences with Essiac. Almost 400 people showed up at the Canadian Cancer Commission hearings in 1939 prepared to be sworn to oath and state that Essiac saved their lives. Today, all over Canada and in parts of the U.S., there are thousands of people who may not know the first thing about scientific proof, but who may not know that Essiac benefited or even saved them or someone else they love. For science to deny that there is a cause and effect relationship between Essiac and the relief of pain and the regression of cancerous tumors is almost like saying, well, we can see all those great huge billowing clouds of smoke, but we haven't been able to determine with cartainy that there is a fire. While most Americans have never heard of Essiac, the controversy it inspires has raged in Canada since the 1920's, every few years in the public glare of the press, and frequently involving the highest medical, legal, and political circles in Canada. But always that controversy centered on this one woman who lived, most of the time, in the tiny village of Bracebridge, Ontario, Population 9,000 or so. Rene Cassie was an unlikely figure. She was a skilled nurse who didn't crave attention or money. " never had $100.00 I could call my own," she use to laugh with her friends. She didn't charge a fee for her services. She accepted only voluntary contributions - in the form of fruits, vegetables, or eggs, as often as not - from those who could afford to offer them, and she didn't turn away people who couldn't make any payment at all. One man, Ted Hale, was so grateful watching his wife recover from cancer using Essiac that he slipped a $50 bill under a book on a shelf when he came to pick up another bottle from Rene. The next time he arrived at her front door , he says, she grabbed him by the shirt collar, pulled him inside and gave him a piece of her mind. How dare he leave her that much money? She didn't like it one bit. He apologized and asked her if she would accept it as his way of donating for the next people who needed her Essiac and couldn't afford to leave anything at all. She Finally relented on those grounds and kept the money, but Ted Hale still laughs at his own embarrassment when he tells the story ten years later. Rene Cassie lived her own life in modest circumstances while rejecting offers of vast sums of money to reveal her formula. She refused to reveal her formula to people who wanted to help her; she refused to reveal her formula to powerful institutions that demanded it before they would consider legitimizing Essiac. What Rene Cassie wanted was to heal the ill and guarantee the legalization of Essiac for all, yet her intransigent refusal to budge from secrecy about the formula cost her - and us - dearly. She refused to reveal the formula to the Canadian government, the Memorial Sloan-Kittering Center Cancer Center in New York - the world's largest private cancer research center - and the National Cancer Institiute, just to name some of the institutions that wanted the formula at one time or another. She wouldn't give them the formula untill they would admit that Essiac had merit as a treatment for cancer. They refused to admit ant merit until she gave them the formula. There were legitimate arguments made on both sides. Rene was fearful that the medical establishment would either exploit Essiac, charging exorbitant prices to make a fortune and placing it beyond the means of the poor, or discredit it and bury it. The doctors and politicians argued that they couldn't very well accept the legitimacy of a cancer treatment if they didn't even know what was in it. The result was a tragic standoff. We have lost tragic decades of precious research. With hindsight, it can be argued that Rene Cassie should have given the formula to anyone, anywhere, at any time, who wanted to have it for any reason, on the grounds that the more people who have it, the better chance that the truth will come out. That certainly will be the position taken in this book. I am going to release to the public, for the first time, the formula and the procedure for preparing Essiac. I will explain in detail at the end of this book how I will do that, and how anyone who wants that information may have it. I believe that information should be be in the hands of the public. People should have the right to make their own decisions about whether or not they will drink the Essiac tea. People can make it themselves, if they wish, just the way Rene did. The herbs are available for less then $50 from any major herbal distributor in America. There is no mystery about the preparation. It must be done carefully and accurately - as I will explain - but it finally comes down to: Put in so much of this herb, so much of that herb, brew it and drink the tea. The herbs themselves grow in many regions. Rene use to say that enough of the herbs grow in Ontario to supply the whole world. But in revealing the formula, I share one of Rene's deep fears that played an important role in her refusal to release the formula until after the governing bodies of medicine and law would admit that it had merit: Namely, that once the herbs are publicly identified, these inexpensive and widely available plants will be placed on the federal "controlled substances" roster - like some dangerous drug - and suddenly become very difficult - and illegal - to acquire. But there's nothing I can do about that. as always, those decisions are up to the governments. But my decision is to tell the story of how I came into possession of the formula, place it before the public and let the people make up their own minds about what they want to do with it. At least once the formula is in the public domain, the old argument that was used for so long against Rene - we can't do proper scientific studies until we know the formula - will no longer have any validity at all. Sloan-Kettering, for instance, was telling Rene Cassie at least as late as 1975 that they would perform more clinical studies on Essiac, if only they had the formula. Well, now they'll have it. And so will anyone who wants it. Rene Cassie was a sweet woman who gave her best and saw the worst. She was surrounded most of her life with pane and suffering of others. She lived under siege much of the time, with a legion of supporters who saw her as a saint and powerful enemies who wanted her arrested for practicing medicine without a license. She became so fearful and paranoid about arrest that she sometimes had to turn away dying people who were pleading with her to help them. But more often, she found ways to help the people that came to her, even total strangers who had nothing to offer her. She said once about her situation: "I was always just one jump ahead of a policeman. We were right across the street from the town jail and the keeper use to joke that he was saving a cell for me." The blessing of Essiac brought a curse for Rene Cassie: Her life was never her own. ---- end pt1. pt 2 follows, Press Space to Continue ESSIAC ^^^^^^ o Supplies Needed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 or 5 gallon stainless steel pot 2 gallon stainless steel pot, with lid Stainless steel fine-mesh double strainer Stainless steel funnel Stainless steel spatula 12 or more 16 ounce amber glass bottles with air tight caps (not childproof caps) 2 gallons of sodium-free distilled water o Essiac Formula ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6 1/2 cups burdock root - cut ( Arctium Lappa ) 16 oz. sheep sorrel herb - powdered ( Rumex Acetosella ) 1 oz. turkey rhubarb root - powdered ( Rheum Palmatum ) 4 oz. Slippery elm bark - powdered ( Ulmus Fulva ) o Preparation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Mix Essiac formula thoroughly. 2. Bring sodium-free distilled water to a rolling boil in a 5-gallon pot with lid on. (Approximately 30 minutes at sea level.) 3. Stir in 1 cup of Essiac formula. Replace lid and continue boiling for 10 minutes. 4. Turn off stove. Scrape down sides of pot with spatula and stir mixture thoroughly. Replace lid. 5. Allow pot to remain closed for 12 hours; then turn stove to full heat for 20 minutes. 6. Turn off stove. Strain liquid into 3-gallon pot, and clean 5-gallon pot and strainer. Then Strain filtered liquid back into 5-gallon pot. 7. Use funnel to pour hot liquid into bottles immediately, taking care to tighten caps. Allow bottles to cool; then tighten the caps again. 8. Refrigerate. Essiac contains no preservative agents. If mold should develop in the bottle, discard immediately. CAUTION: All bottles and caps must be sterilized after use if you plan to re-use them for Essiac. Bottle caps must be washed and rinsed thoroughly, and may be cleaned with a 3% solution of food grade hydrogen peroxide in water. o Directions for use ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Heat four tablespoons [ 2 oz. ] sodium-free distilled water in a stainless steel pot. Add 4 tablespoons of Essiac ( shake bottle first). Mix and drink. Take at bedtime on an empty stomach, at least 2 hours after eating. ---- Pt. 3. Questions regarding recipe and dosage, information on how to obtain a good source of herbs, to purchase the whole book. or other questions, please contact the author directly. Dr. Gary L. Glum c/o Silent Walker Publishing P.O. Box 92856 Los Angeles, California 90009 Phone 310-271-9931 ---- end pt. 2 and 3 - pt. 4 next, Press Space to Continue This article is from __"Wildfire__Magazine"__ which is published by The Bear Tribe Medicine Society, P.O. Box 9167, Spokane, Washington 99209. Phone 509-233-2042. Reprinted by verbal permission of the publisher. Please call them for a copy of their magazine and information about their other programs. \\** Essiac: Nature's Cure For Cancer. ** ** An Interview With Dr. Gary L. Glum, ** ** By Elisabeth Robinson. ** ** Wildfire Magazine **\\ Notes In 1988 Dr. Glum Published __"Calling_of_an_Angel"__, the story of Rene Caisse and Essiac. Two years ago he closed his practice and now devotes his time to investigative writing. Introduction. Rene Caisse was a nurse living in Canada who for a period of almost sixty years treated hundreds of people with a herbal remedy she called Essiac. She discovered this remedy through a patient in the hospital where she worked who had been cured of cancer. The patient had used a herbal remedy given her by an Ojibway herbalist. Rene left the hoispital 1922 at age 33, and went to Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada where she began administering Essiac to all to all who came to her. The majority of those whom she treated came on referral with letters from their physicians certifying they had incurable or terminal forms of cancer and they had been given up by the medical profession as untreatable. Rene began gathering the plants and preparing the herbal remedy herself in her own kitchen, in a building lent to her from her parents. She administered Essiac both orally and by injection. In cases where there were there was severe damage to life support organs, her patients died - but they lived longer than the medical profession had predicted, and, more significantly, they lived free of pain. Still others, listed as hopeless and terminal, but without severe damage to life support organs,were cured and lived 35-45 years (many are still living). So startling was the effectiveness of this simple herbal remedy, it could not be ignored, and the Canadian Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Parliament became involved, former friends, and greatful families petitioned Canadian officialdom for Rene's right to administer the remedy to anyone who asked for it without the threat of interference from authorities. Fifty-five thousand signatures were collected on the petition. In 1938, Essiac came within three votes of being legalized by the Ontario government as a remedy for terminal cancer patients. The story of Rene Caisse, her life, her work, and the effectiveness of the remedy she named Essiac, is told in a book Sun Bear received, __"Calling_of_an_Angel"__, by Dr. Gary L. Glum of Los Angeles. After reading the book and finding it to be informative, well documented and moving, I decided to interview Dr. Glum, I verified the basic information in his book through Canadian sources, one a herbalist who knows of Rene Caisse and her work and who has personally made and successfully used Essiac. As I completed conservation with Dr. Glum, he said, "You're opening a Pandora's Box here, publishing this interview about Essiac." I disagreed, but began thinking about Pandora's "box." In the story of Pandora most well-known today, she is sent by the gods to curse humanity for offending them. Pandora is given a "box" or container with instructions not to open it, which the gods know she will disobey. When Pandora dose open the box, famine, war, plague, disease, pestilence - all the ills of humankind - are released. Then at the last comes hope, as antidote to despair. But according to Barbara Walker's Encyclopedia, Pandora - whose name means "all giving" - was originally an image for Mother Earth. She had, not a box, but a honey vase like the Cornucopia from which flowed all life and creativity, as well as death and rebirth - Earth's gift to her children. Because we are natural beings in a natural world, it seems appropriate that a simple remedy composed of four common herbs, gifts of Earth, would suggest so much promise for us today. Interview with Dr. Glum. Elisabeth Robinson: To begin with, Dr Glum, can You tell us a little about how you became interested in the story you tell in "Calling Of An Angel", and how you learned about Rene Caisse and her work? Dr. Gary Glum: A personal friend of mine knew this woman, whose name I promised not to reveal, who was living in Detroit, Michigan. Twenty years ago she had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in a Detroit hospital where she was eventually given up as incurable and terminal. She was given ten days to live. She convinced her husband to make a trip to Bridge, Canada where she went to see Rene Caisse. She was treated with a herbal remedy developed by Rene - Essiac - and in a short time she didn't have a cancer cell in her body. So after that time this woman began dedicating her life to disseminating information about Essiac in the United States. When I met her, she was the only person in possession of the original herbal formula who would relinquish it. I got the formula for Essiac from her. That's how it began. When I started, all I had was a piece of paper. I thought, what am I going to do with this? I decided the best way to go would be to find the information behind Essiac and put it in book form and bring it to the world. I learned about Rene Caisse from Mary McPherson who was a very close personal friend of Rene's... not only a friend but a patient. Mary's mother and her husband were all treated for cancer and cured by Rene. Mary worked with Rene beginning in the 1930's and she had in her possession all the documents that had to do with Essiac over the last 40 years Rene had administered it. All the documents Rene had were destroyed by the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare at the time of her death in 1978. They burned all that information in fifty-five gallon drums behind her home. ------------------- " Essiac is a non-toxic herbal cure for cancer that's been with us since 1922." ------------------- ER: Why? GG: Because they don't want this information in the hands of the public of the press or any body else. The indeed found out what Essiac was in 1937. The Royal Cancer Commission hearings had then come to the same conclusions that Rene had - that Essiac was a cure for cancer. ER: What is Essiac exactly? GG: Essiac is a non-toxic herbal cure for cancer that's been here with us since 1922. It's a formula made from very common herbs. RE: I would guess that virtually every person in the U.S. today has been touched by cancer, either personally or through a loved one. If this information is true, and the effectiveness of this remedy is actually medically documented, many lives could be saved. Why do you think the information on Essiac is not more widely known? GG: The information is withheld because cancer id the largest revenue producing business in the world, next to the petrochemical business. Money and power suppress this truth. No one has ever sought to cure cancer - only to control it. I mean, the research institutes, federal governments, pharmaceutical companies, anybody that has a vested interest in the health care of cancer, including the American Cancer Society, the Canadian Cancer Society, any of these so-called benefactors to those who have contracted this disease - all of these institutions are involved in the money and power around cancer. These institutions have influence over government and These institutions have influence over the government and regulatory agencies over government such as the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA recommends only allopathic treatment for cancer and other life threatening disease. It dose not approve or make legal alternative treatments of any kind. ER: You're saying that Essiac is in a position similar to, for example, laetril. GG: Yes, the only reason laetril was stopped - and it couldn't be stopped be stopped any other way - was through the insurance companies. The insurance companies sent down a directive to all allopathic physicians stating that they could not cover them in any malpractice suit in the event they were treating people with any substance not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. ER: In your book you mention that the Brusch Clinic in Massachusetts worked with Rene Caisse and with Essiac, during the early 1960's. Is this clinic still doing research with Essiac? GG: Dr. Charles A. Brusch is not practicing at this time. he was a personal physician to the late President John F. Kennedy. Dr. Brusch worked with Rene Caisse from 1959 to 1962. He also worked with the Presidential Cancer Commission, with others like Dr. Armand Hammer, The American Cancer Society, and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Brusch presented his findings after ten years of research. He has come to the conclusion that, in his own words, "Essiac is a cure for cancer, period. All studies done at in the United States and Canada support this conclusion." Whereupon the federal government issued a gag order and said "You've got one of two choices, either you keep quiet about this or we'll haul you off to military prison and you'll never be heard of again." So we never heard another word out of him. Brusch's Essiac patients included Ted Kennedy's son who had a sarcoma in his leg, and who has his amputated. He was being treated at that time by the Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Farber didn't know how to save him, because no one ever lived with this kind of sarcoma. So what he did was go to Dr. Brusch and say, how are we going to save Ted Kennedy's son? And Dr. Brusch made the suggestion to put him on Essiac, and after they did, he didn't have a cancer cell in his body. But all this information has been hidden from the general public. ER: Why? GG: As I said, money and power. ER: Do you know whether the remedy is being used or tested anywhere in the U.S. or Canada? GG: Right now Essiac is being used in every state in the United States, it's throughout Canada, into Mexico, it's in Australia, Europe, Asia, and recently, also in Africa. So the message of Essiac is beginning to make its way world wide. But it's still known only on a very limited basis. Of course you also have the problem of herbal companies distributing throughout the world that are substituting yellow dock and curly dock for sheep's sorrel, which is one of the critical ingredients in Essiac. The sheep's sorrel is the herbal ingredient in Essiac that was found to be responsible for the destruction of cancer sells in the body, or their amalgamation where metastasized cancer cells actually return to the original tumor site. That research was done by Dr. Chester Stock at Sloan-Kettering in New York for over a three year period. But when they gathered that information, they withheld it from the general public - yet they gave it to the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare. The Canadian government then immediately banned that herb for sale and distribution. ER: Banned A weed like Sheep's sorrel? GG: Yes, sheep's sorrel is just a common weed that grows in abundance throughout North America and into Canada. Just a common weed. (note: After this interview was completed, "Wildfire" learned from an herbalist in Canada that the Canadian government has recently banned St. John's Wort, also a common weed frequently used by herbalists.) ER: Well, it seems that banning sheep's sorrel would not be very effective if you could identify it for yourself. GG: Yes, it's just a question of identifying the plant and then harvesting it correctly and drying it properly and then putting it together with the other herbs. Rene would harvest the sheep's sorrel - Rumex acetosella - when it was four to six inches high. She would cut it back and it would grow up again, and she'd cut it back again. She would do this about three times and then let it go to seed. It will grow 14 or 18 inches. She would take the herb cuttings and lay them out at room temperature to dry them. She'd let them sit there for three or four days before she'd begin turning the herbs. Then she'd turn them every two days until they were properly dry, which took about ten days to two weeks. It takes about a bushel of harvested sheep's sorrel to produce one pound of the dried powdered herb which is used in the formula. ER: Do you have the formula? it's not in your book. You do mention a video in the book. GG: Yes, I have it. Anyone can get it from me free of charge. We don't sell the video anymore. We simply mail the formula to anyone who asks for it. ER: Sun Bear told me you had problems getting the book published and distributed. What kind of problems? GG: There wasn't a publishing company that would publish it. No one wanted to run the risk of a wrongful death suit. So I published the book myself. And as soon as I did, the IRS came in and slapped about a half a million dollars in tax liens against me and said, "You know this has nothing to do with taxes. It's all about cancer." They actually started hauling the pallets of books out of my medical practice and confiscating them. I also had thousands of books that were confiscated the Canadian government at customs. I have never received any of those books back. The only ones that I have now are hidden in storage facilities. ER: That's incredible - why do you think they are so interested in keeping this book out of circulation? GG: Money and power, as I've said. Cancer is the largest revenue producing business in the world next to the petrochemical business. In Canada the book is being held up by the Ministry & Health Welfare because they say it is "advertising." ER: Advertising what? The video that you don't sell any more? GG: No, A cure for cancer. ER: Can you explain what you mean by the publishers' fearing a wrongful death suit? GG: What you're dealing with is giving the people a formula that they can make in the privacy of their own homes without the approval of the AMA or the FDA or anybody else. If any attorney or family member should decide, for whatever reason, that the reason someone else expired was from the use of Essiac, then you are putting yourself up for a wrongful death suit. The contention is that if it isn't approved by the Food and Drug Administration, there's no legality in using it when you are dealing with a life threatening disease. When Rene Caisse set up her clinical trials in Canada to test Essiac, she was given government permission to treat terminally ill cancer patients who had been given up for hopeless by the medical profession. That was one criteria. Secondly, this was all to be certified by a pathology report. And third, she could not charge anything for her services. She agreed to all these criteria with Essiac. Many she treated were still there to bury her when she died at she 90. The best that anyone can do is just try to disseminate this this information to the public and let people make their own choices. That's all you can do. And just say, look, if you feel that Essiac has value in your life and the lives of your loved ones, you have the right to make this remedy and use it in the privacy of your own home and without anyone's approval. You know, in 1937 Essiac came within three votes of being legalized as a treatment for cancer. People had generated over fifty-thousand signatures on a petition to allow Rene to continue to use Essiac. The only reason the vote fell short, she found out later, was that the College of Physicians and Surgeons met and said to Parliament, if you don't respond to the political pressure and legalize Essiac, Then we'll take a sincere look and give this woman a fair hearing. So Parliament didn't legalize Essiac. So following the Royal Cancer Commission hearings, Rene was allowed to continue her practice but only within the criteria I mentioned before, which allowed the Ministry of Health & Welfare to restrict people's access to Essiac treatments. I know this because I have a copy of the hearing transcripts which I got from Mary McPherson, which is the source of some of the Information that did not get burned when Rene died. ER: You mentioned that earlier. What exactly was burned? GG: All of her research for that 40-year period of time. All the names, all her clinical data that she had collected. Her files and records. ER: What about the records of the Brusch Clinic? It seems these would be convincing evidence. GG: As far as I know all that material has been destroyed also. I knew that Rene had worked with Dr. Brusch from 1959 to 1962, so I went to Dr. Brusch's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts whereuopn he delivered to me the only material he had left in his files on Essiac. One of those files was his own personal file where he had treated and cured his own cancer with Essiac. I have his personal records. All the information in my book is verified by a sheet of paper with a signature and a date on it, and those sheets and signatures are all originals. They are not copies. ER: Have you had any personal experiences with Essiac? GG: Yes, I can give you an example. He was a twelve-year-old boy named Toby Wood. He had acute lymphpblastic, which is one of the most virulent of all leukemias. He had been on chemotherapy for four years and radiation for three. His mother's only home in life was to find a cure for him. She went every where. She tried every alternative treatment. Her last stop was Dr. Alvazados in Athens, Greece, where her son's white cell count was 186,000. He had few red blood cells and no platelets. He was hemorrhaging to death. So they transfused Toby in Greece and put him on a plane to Alaska where he was given less than five days to live. I met his mother's sister in Los Angeles while I was putting the book together and she asked if there was any credibility here. We sat down and talked. She then borrowed the money for a flight to Anchorage, and delivered a bottle of Essiac. By the time she got there Toby was given three days to live. He was in a state of complete deterioation. He was given the Essiac and all the hemorrhaging stopped within 24 hours. Within three months all of his blood tests were normal. I arrived in Alaska later that year and met with him. Toby Wood did die, and we finally found a pathologist who would do an exhaustive autopsy. We knew that he didn't have leukemia any more. We wanted to find out what was the cause of death It took four months to get the report back. The pathologist autopsied the brain, testicles, and all life support organs, including the bone marrow. No blast cells were found in any support organ. There were a few stray cells in the testicles and the brain. Cause of death was damage to the myocardial sac of the heart, a result of the chemotherapy. This was the first report anywhere in medical history history of anyone surviving lymphoblastic leukemia. That information was taken to AP and UPI but they said it was not newsworthy. Our information on Essiac has been sent around the world twice through a Publisher's Weekly magazine in a huge two-page ad. We received no responses from any publishing company worldwide, no producers, no talk show programs, none of that. We can't access the media. In fact we talked to Philip Scheffler, producer of 60 Minutes. He read the book and we called him to ask what he was going to do about. He said nothing. I said, all the information in the book is verifiable. In other words, the truth. I said, if you're 60 Minutes why don't you expose me and Essiac as a fraud. He said, nope, can't do it. We took it to Joe Donally who's the executive news producer for ABC in New York. We said why not give it to Peter Jennings, Geraldo Rivera, Ted Koppel, one of those. He said nope. We asked why not. He said because his phone lines would be invaded with 65,00 phone calls. We said, how sympathetic do you think a parent whose child is dying of leukemia, would be to your 65,000 phone calls. He went on to say he's got a mortgage on his house and he's looking towards retirement. SO that's the problem. no one wants this information disseminated. And it's not just the media, either. It includes the herbal companies who are now substituting the curly dock for sheep's sorrel, So people are getting the wrong ingredients for Essiac, not to mention the five or six other formulas that are circulating which are different from the ones I send out. These false formulas are being disseminated. There is a disinformation campaign going on here, somehow. ER: Has this disinformation campaign started just since your book has been out? GG: Previous to my book, none of this information was available to the general public at all. The public had no information outside of a few assorted articles. Certainly the Essiac formula was not available to the general public at all. All that information was held by the Resperin Corporation in Toronto, Canada, which supposedly is a private institution. However, they work hand in glove with the Canadian Ministry of Health & Welfare, who works directly with the American Food and Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. The Essiac Formula was never given to anyone by Resperin. ER: Did the Resperin Corporation do any research on Essiac? GG: They've done research since 1978 when the formula was relinquished to them by Rene for the purchase price of one dollar. As soon as they got the formula, they told rene they had no further use for her. She had been under the distinct impression from the Ministry of Health & Welfare and the Resperin Corporation that she was to lead the research activities that they so desperately wanted to put together. But Rene had already done clinical trials. She had names and records. she thought the Resperin Coporation was politically powerful and had money enough to get Essiac in to the public sector without compromising her values. Then she found out the Corporation was working closely with the government and administration and the Ministry of Health & Welfare. So now people who were terminally ill and given up as hopeless had to go through a federal bereaucratic maze to get the remedy. By then it was too late. But even when people were cured, that information was not released to the public. Resperin ran research tests in Essiac. One test was conducted in Northern Canada and the documents were falsified. For example, one man was listed as dead who a few months later knocked on Rene's door and said, you know I want to thank you for the Essiac and being part of the experimental program. Yet he was listed as dead in the research project findings. ER: It's beginning to sound amazing to me that any information at all about this remedy has survived the "conspiracy of silence" or outright destruction of records and so on. GG: The only Essiac is known is by word of mouth and because Essiac is what it is. What will keep Essiac known is its effectiveness. Rene said it years ago. She said, look, if Essiac dosen't have any merit let me put it out there. If it dosen't have merit, it will kill itself. Of course she knew full well if people has the correct herbs, the remedy would stand on its own. And that is exactly what Essiac has done over this period of time that we've been disseminating the information. Rene also found that Essiac was a strong preventive. These findings were substantiated by Dr. Albert Schatz at Temple University who discovered the cure for tuberulosis. Rene also found that Essiac would normalize the thyriod gland. My wife was on two grains of thyriod since the sixth grade. After I met her, she started taking Essiac, and she hasn't taken a thyroid since. Rene also found that Essiac would heal stomach ulcers within three or four weeks. She felt that ulcers were a precursor to cancer. Sir Fredrick Banting, the co-discoverer if insulin, wanted to work with Rene. She has clinical cases where a person on insulin discontinued it with the essiac, since no one knew how Essiac would interact with the insulin. Apparently Essiac regulated the pancreas in cases of diabetes mellitus. So these people then became insulin-free. Another thing I've found with Essiac is that I've experienced almost perfect health. As you get older you think, I'm forty now, these things happen. Well, these things don't have to happen. Since I've taken Essiac, I've experienced almost perfect health. It's amazing. I sleep like a baby, have all kinds of energy, and no sickness, not even a cold or flu. I also worked with the AIDS Project in Los Angeles through their Long Beach and San Pedro districts. They sent 179 patients home to die. They all had pneumocystis carinii and histoplasmosis. Their weight was down to about 100 pounds. Their T-4 cell counts were less then ten. The Project gave me five of these patients. I took them off the AZT and the DDI and put them on Essiac three times a day. Those are the only ones alive today. The other 174 are dead. ER: That is incredible - but what kind of lives are they leading today? GG: They're exercising three times a day, eating three meals a day. Their weight is back to normal. For all intents and purposes you wouldn't know that they were sick. But this information is not being disseminated either, because AIDS is on the horizon as another big money maker. The chairman of the AIDS Project makes over $100,000.00 a year. Even the alternative health care professionals are out there to control, not to cure. Alternative medical practice is just as mercenary and deceptive as the allopathic. No one wants a cure for cancer or AIDS. ----------------------- Nationwide in the water we drink over 2,100 organic and inorganic chemicals have been identified, and 156 of them are pure carcinogens. ------------------------------------- The alternative people are also in it for the money. What you're finding with Essiac is that it is not even allowed into the arenas of alternative health care. So what you've got out here is people continually perpetrating these lies against mankind. For money. For money and power. It's that simple. Really once you think about it, the only reason we don't have solar power is that no one figured out a way to sell Exxon the sun. it's true. If they could, you'd have solar power, You know you'd have it. ER: So, in your own personal experience, this herbal remedy works to - I'm going to just quote you here and say "cure" - cancer, thyroid conditions, diabetes, AIDS, ulcers... GG: It also cures the common cold. Essiac elevates the immune system. I've been taking an ounce a day for seven years, and in seven years I haven't had a cold, flu, or virus. ER: And all of this from a simple Native herbal remedy? GG: Yes. Although Rene did alter it. She altered it with Turkish rhubarb root (Rheum palmatum). Turkish rhubarb has a 5,000 year history. It actually came up from India into China and then was taken by the British. ER: Turkish rhubarb root is not native in this country, more available here. Herbals from foreign countries are fumigated and irradiated, so is it a good idea to use the Turkish rhubarb? GG: You can subsitute rhubarb root. The other two ingredients are burdock root (Arctium lappa) and the inner bark of the slippery elm (Ulmus fulva). They are easy to obtain, usally. Sheep's sorrel, Rumex acetosella, is what destroys the cancer cells. The other three herbs are blood purifiers. Essiac elevates the enzyme system and gives all cancer patients and all AIDS patients the enzymes that have been destroyed. Essiac elevates the enzyme system; it elevates the hormone system, which elevates the immune system, so the body can cure its own disease. ER: What about the quantities? Some herbal are toxic. GG: Even its worst enemy could never lay claim that Essiac had any deletrious side effects whatever. You can take Essiac safely, through all the clinical trials that have been done, up to six ounces a day. That's two ounces in the evening, two in the morning, and two around noontime. That's a high dosage. Rene had the correct herbs and she used as little as one ounce a week. But look at the difference between then and now. The food didn't have carcinogens in it, and neither did the water, nor the air. So that have we done? We've killed the air, killed the water, killed the food. So what's left? Nationwide in the water we drink, over 2,100 organic and inorganic chemicals have been identified, and 156 of them are pure carcinogens. Of those, if you have a tumor, 26 are tumor promoting, so they make the tumor larger. But of course this information is not available to the public either. Those figures are from tests conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency which have never been distributed to the public. ER: How did you get the information? GG: From a Ralph Nader organization out of Washington D.C. The media has not disseminated this information. Another problem is that very few people read books any more. We can only hope they'll read Calling of an Angel. Of coarse, the problem right now is people getting the right herbs. ER: Anything you'd like to add before we close this interview? GG: I would like to say that I didn't do all this research because I feel I have a responsibility to other people. I did because I have a responsibility to myself. I know that I've done all I can to disseminate this information and bring it to the people. I was the first person to release this information on Essiac, how to make it, to the general public and say, here it is, here's the formula, here's the story. So now the story is out there and look what's happening -- it's getting killed through a disinformation campaign. I mean Harvard, Temple, Tufts, Northwestern University, Chicago -- all these institutions have tested Essiac with the right stuff, and they all came to the same conclusions as Rene Caisse. But all that information has been buried. ER: Gary, it's been very interesting to speak with you. GG: It's been a pleasure. You're opening a Pandora's Box, you know publishing this interview. ER: I think you're the one who's done that. Would you tell people how to get your book and the information on Essiac? GG: They simply call me in California at 310-271-9931. The book is $35.00. The formula is free. * * * * * * * * * In july 1991, the Canadian Journal of Herbalism published an article, "Old Ontario Remedies," about Essiac. The article gives specific information on the ingredients of Essiac and includes descriptions of the herbs. Sheep's sorrel, for example, is a folk remedy for tumors. The article also warns of high oxalic acid content in two of the herbs making the remedy unsafe for persons with kidney ailments or arthritic conditions. This article concludes: "Essiac is not a hoax or fraud. To hear experiences described by the patients themselves cannot help but convince observers that dramatic and beneficial changes definitely took place in many but not all those who received the remedy. Allthough the focus on Essiac has been as a cancer treatment. It alleviated and sometimes cured many chronic and degenerative conditions because it cleanses the blood as well as the liver and strengthens the immune system." Write: Ontario Herbalists Association, M.J. Pimentel MH, 7 Alpine Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6P-3R6 for information on obtaining a copy of the july 1991 issue, Vol xii, No iii of the Canadian Journal of Herbalism. ========== Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 06:48:10 -0400 From: ltd@world.std.com (Lenard T Diggins) Today's Topics: Re: HERBALGRAM Recreation Re: JEWEL> Horticulture (fwd) Goldberg Depression and Mania Scales Re: My dog & cancer Price list for overseas drugs Resource List -- more stuff FREE PREMIUM PET FOOD SAMPLE!!!! Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! Re: Ginko Biloboa Re: Ginko Biloboa Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! Protest for Betak, Pennsylvania AIDS Nursing Home ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: HERBALGRAM From: John R. Porter, Biology Dept., PCP&S Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 12:35:40 EST ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 12:35:40 EST From: John R. Porter, Biology Dept., PCP&S To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: HERBALGRAM Herbalgram is a publication of the American Botanical Council and the Herb Research Foundation. Write to American Botanical Council, POB 201660, Austin, TX 78720. The subscription rate is $25/yr, $45/2 yrs, $60/3 yrs and an additional $10 per year for subscriptions outside the U.S. If you are in a hurry, the phone number is 512 331-8868 or FAX at 512 331-1924. A colleague of mine, Ara Der Marderosian, is an advisory board and a regular contributor. I read each issue and there is much of interest. John R. Porter porter@hslc.org ------------------------------ Subject: Recreation From: Patt Bromberger Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 18:50:05 CDT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 1994 10:48:01 -0700 From: Patt Bromberger To: Multiple recipients of list ALTLEARN Subject: GOPHER> Recreation (fwd) Forwarded by Gleason Sackman - InterNIC net-happenings moderator **************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 94 18:50:05 CDT >From:david.riggins@tpoint.com To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Recreation A nice collection of recreation pointers at CTC's Gopher Type=1 Name=CTC's Gopher Path= Host=ctc.ctc.edu Port=70 URL: gopher://ctc.ctc.edu:70/1 --> 4. Information by Subject/ --> 20. Physical Education & Recreation/ Physical Education & Recreation 1. Aikido Dojos/ 2. Baseball Scores. 3. Cycling - Canada/ 4. Cycling - Norway/ 5. Games/ 6. Going Places/ 7. Hockey Card Collectors/ 8. Professional Sports Schedules/ 9. Recreation/ 10. Recreational Flying/ 11. Scuba Diving/ 12. US State Department Travel Advisories/ 13. Windsurfing/ --- * CmpQwk #UNREG * UNREGISTERED EVALUATION COPY ------------------------------ Subject: Re: JEWEL> Horticulture (fwd) From: Gleason Sackman Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 05:51:43 -0700 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 11:06:11 EDT From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR%CMUVM.BITNET@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU> To: Multiple recipients of list MGARDEN Subject: Horticultural gopher (fwd) =================== Forwarded Message =================== Date: Sun, 8 May 94 12:04:54 CDT From: david.riggins@tpoint.com To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Horticulture I found a very nice collect on garden vegetables, gardening tips, trees, flowers, and landscaping at the Gainesville College, Georgia. Horticulture (Information Leaflets) --> 1. Search NCCES Horticultural Information Leaflets 2. HIL-00 Suggested Commercial Vegetable Varieties (1/94). 3. HIL-002-B Home Garden Asparagus Production (4/93). 4. HIL-002-C Asparagus Crown Production (4/93). 5. HIL-003-A Pole Bean Production (9/93). 6. HIL-003-B Lima Bean Production (11/91). 7. HIL-003-C Commercial Snap Bean Production (9/91). 8. HIL-005 Broccoli Production (4/93). 9. HIL-005-A Broccoli Raab (4/91). 10. HIL-005-B Broccoli Production Guide for Western North Carolina 11. HIL-006 Brussel Sprouts (4/93). 12. HIL-009 Commercial Carrot Production (4/93). 13. HIL-010 Cauliflower (4/93). 14. HIL-011 Growing Lettuce in North Carolina (9/93). 15. HIL-012 Collards (4/93). 16. HIL-014 Cucumbers for Fresh Market (12/90). 17. HIL-014-A Pickling Cucumbers (12/90). 18. HIL-014-B Trellised Cucumbers (7/90). Page: 1/8 Type=1 Name=Horticulture (Information Leaflets) Path=1/subjects/.hort/ Host=twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu Port=70 URL: gopher://twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu:70/11/subjects/.hort/ ======================================================================== 51 Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 07:18:45 -0700 From: Gleason Sackman To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: UPDATED> Re: JEWEL> Horticulture (fwd) Forwarded by Gleason Sackman - InterNIC net-happenings moderator **************************************************************** ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 05:51:43 -0700 Subject: Re: JEWEL> Horticulture (fwd) Correction: This collection is the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service's "Horticulture Information Leaflets" which were developed by Specialists from the Department of Horticulture at North Carolina State University. This is one collection of factsheets... there are several other topics covered as as well. You may also reach these publications via our www URL: http://gopher.ces.ncsu.edu -- Mitch Mitchell B. Owen ESFJ Spoken Here! Computer Training Specialist mowen@ces.ncsu.edu Extension Technology Services (919)515-2983 North Carolina State University (919)515-3777 fax N.C. Cooperative Extension Service P.O. Box 7641, Ligon St., NCSU, Raleigh, NC 27695-7641 ------------------------------ Subject: Goldberg Depression and Mania Scales From: Ivan Goldberg Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 10:46:56 -0400 (EDT) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 10:46:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Ivan Goldberg To: pendulum@ucar.edu Cc: walkers@world.std.com Subject: Goldberg Depression and Mania Scales What follows are the scales I use with patients when they visit my office to quantify changes in the symptoms of depression and mania. You might reproduce these scales and use them on a weekly basis to track your moods. They also might be used to show your doctor how your symptoms have changed from one visit to the next. ============================ Cut Here ==================================== Name______________________________________ Date__________________________ Goldberg Depression Scale The items below refer to how you have felt and behaved DURING THE PAST WEEK. For each item, indicate the extent to which it is true, by circling one of the numbers that follows it. Using the following scale: 0 = Not at all 1 = Just a little 2 = Somewhat 3 = Moderately 4 = Quite a lot 5 = Very much ========================================================================== 1. I do things slowly. 0 1 2 3 4 5 2. My future seems hopeless. 0 1 2 3 4 5 3. It is hard for me to concentrate on reading. 0 1 2 3 4 5 4. The pleasure and joy has gone out of my life. 0 1 2 3 4 5 5. I have difficulty making decisions. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6. I have lost interest in aspects of life that used to be important to me. 0 1 2 3 4 5 7. I feel sad, blue, and unhappy. 0 1 2 3 4 5 8. I am agitated and keep moving around. 0 1 2 3 4 5 9. I feel fatigued. 0 1 2 3 4 5 10. It takes great effort for me to do simple things. 0 1 2 3 4 5 11. I feel that I am a guilty person who deserves to be punished. 0 1 2 3 4 5 12. I feel like a failure. 0 1 2 3 4 5 13. I feel lifeless - - - more dead than alive. 0 1 2 3 4 5 14. My sleep has been disturbed---too little, too much, or broken sleep. 0 1 2 3 4 5 15. I spend time thinking about HOW I might kill myself. ~~~ 0 1 2 3 4 5 16. I feel trapped or caught. 0 1 2 3 4 5 17. I feel depressed even when good things happen to me. 0 1 2 3 4 5 18. Without trying to diet, I have lost, or gained, weight. 0 1 2 3 4 5 Copyright (c) 1993 Ivan Goldberg ================================ CUT HERE ================================ Name_________________________________________ Date_______________________ Goldberg Mania Scale The items below refer to how you have felt and behaved DURING THE PAST WEEK. For each item, indicate the extent to which it is true, by circling one of the numbers that follows it. Using the following scale: 0 = Not at all 1 = Just a little 2 = Somewhat 3 = Moderately 4 = Quite a lot 5 = Very much ========================================================================== 1. My mind has never been sharper. 0 1 2 3 4 5 2. I need less sleep than usual. 0 1 2 3 4 5 3. I have so many plans and new ideas that it is hard for me to work. 0 1 2 3 4 5 4. I feel a pressure to talk and talk. 0 1 2 3 4 5 5. I have been particularly happy. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6. I have been more active than usual. 0 1 2 3 4 5 7. I talk so fast that people have a hard time keeping up with me. 0 1 2 3 4 5 8. I have more new ideas than I can handle. 0 1 2 3 4 5 9. I have been irritable. 0 1 2 3 4 5 10. It's easy for me to think of jokes and funny stories. 0 1 2 3 4 5 11. I have been feeling like "the life of the party." 0 1 2 3 4 5 12. I have been full of energy. 0 1 2 3 4 5 13. I have been thinking about sex. 0 1 2 3 4 5 14. I have been feeling particularly playful. 0 1 2 3 4 5 15. I have special plans for the world. 0 1 2 3 4 5 16. I have been spending too much money. 0 1 2 3 4 5 17. My attention keeps jumping from one idea to another. 0 1 2 3 4 5 18. I find it hard to slow down and stay in one place. 0 1 2 3 4 5 Copyright (c) 1993 Ivan Goldberg ================================ CUT HERE ================================ Note: These scales are designed to measure changes in the severity of depression and mania that result from psychotherapeutic or psychopharma- cologic treatment. Changes in either scale of five or more points are significant These scales are not designed to make a diagnosis of either depression or mania. If you suspect that you are depressed, or manic, consult with a mental health professional. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: My dog & cancer From: Bonnie Williamson Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 12:36:45 -0800 This is for anyone who needs help. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 12:36:45 -0800 From: Bonnie Williamson To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: My dog & cancer Ellee (emargile@solar.rtd.utk.edu) requested info about treating cancer in dogs. I have a flyer from Shareefa for ARRU Herbal Pet Tonic Arctium lappa Rumex acetosella Rheum palmatum Ulmus fulva This appears to be Essiac, marketed for pets. dosages are: Weight ARRU Boiled Distilled water 1-5 lbs 1/4-1/2 tsp same 6-15 lbs 1/2-1 tsp same 16-30 lbs 1-2 tsp same 31-60 lbs 2-3 tsp same 61-120 lbs 1 1/2 - 2 Tablespoons same over 120 lbs 3-4 Tablespoons as a maintenance use 3 times weekly if treating a specific illness, use daily until symptoms are corrected then go on the maintenance program give before bedtime, no food or water 2-3 hours before or after "As your pet begins the internal cleansing cycle you may notice some strange occurences, such as the skin may sluff off offensive smelling toxins, the urine may also have a noxious odor, etc. If you are uncertain with your pets condition, consult with your vet." to order $15.00 per 16 oz bottle $12.00 per 16 oz bottle (12 or more) Send to Shareefa 4410 W. Corrine Drive Glendale, AZ 85304 (602) 843-3252 Seems like homemade or any good source of Essiac could be used with theses dosages for dogs, cats, horses, etc. Good Luck Bonnie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ********************************************************************** * Bonnie Williamson E-Mail b_willia@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu * * Marine Science Institute * * University of California Office Phone (805) 893-2051 * * Santa Barbara, CA 93106 FAX (805) 893-3777 * ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: Price list for overseas drugs From: humpdie@aol.com (HUMPDIE) Date: 30 Apr 1994 19:01:02 -0400 Please post for those who may choose to make use of such. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 04 May 94 13:22:36 -0700 From:davisd@nimitz.ee.washington.edu To: Extropians@extropy.org Subject: FWD: [Price list for overseas drugs] ------- Forwarded Message From: humpdie@aol.com (HUMPDIE) Newsgroups: sci.life-extension Subject: Price list for overseas drugs Date: 30 Apr 1994 19:01:02 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 254 Message-ID: <2punve$ad3@search01.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: search01.news.aol.com Thought everyone might find the following info useful, I copied a price list and order form from a company that deals with many of the pharmaceuticals discussed here, hopefully this cut and paste deal will work... LIFE EXTENSION SERVICES 558-A Baltimore Pike, Suite 230 Bel Air, MD 21014 USA Dear Customer, Life Extension Services provides you with easy access to the products of many companies throughout the world. The service we offer consists of ordering products for you, providing advice on the FDA import guidelines, and providing a guarantee of delivery of your order. We do not profit through the resale of any of the products that we offer. Our sole source of income is the flat fee we charge for freight forwarding and insurance. Because of this, it is in our best interests to offer you the lowest prices available. The following price list is a compilation of the lowest prices available (from companies that we have found to be reliable) at the time of printing. Should we find another source with a better price, before we place your order, we will obtain the products from that source instead. Along with your order, we will refund the money that was saved. Now a little about the FDA import guidelines: the FDA started a pilot program in 1988 that allows the import of various pharmaceuticals. There is a list of prohibited items that has been slowly growing. It is difficult to keep up with which products are allowed to be imported, and which are not. This is because the FDA does not supply the lists to anyone who asks. Generally, their response has been that if you file a Freedom of Information Act request, they will be forced to release the information. Instead of going through this every month, and waiting for their reply, it is easier (and more reassuring for you) if we simply guarantee delivery of your product. If the FDA confiscates the product (though no fault of your own), and refuses to return it, we will either reorder the product for you, or refund your money. In addition, should you qualify for any quantity discount, we will, of course, refund the difference to you. To meet the import guidelines you MUST: 1. Read and sign the bottom part of the order form. You MUST NOT: 1. Order more than a three month supply of any given product at one time. Life Extension Services reserves the right to reduce the size of any order it feels to be inappropriate. Any excess funds will be refunded. 2. Commercially resell the products. We will be happy to search for any special requests that are not on our list. This process may take some time. If you have any questions, or comments, please let us know - we are always looking for ways to improve our service. PHARMACEUTICAL ORDER FORM Life Extension Services 558-A Baltimore Pike, Suite 230 Bel Air, MD 21014 USA Name Address City State Zip Phone number Fax number Product name Dosage Price/order Quantity Sub total | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Shipping $15.00 Remailing and insurance fee $40.00 Total cost: Payment may be made by treasury check or money order, in US funds only. I declare that the products ordered above are solely for my personal use. None of the products are for commercial resale. Furthermore, the amounts ordered are not larger than a three month supply. No claims have been made by Life Extension Services regarding the therapeutic properties of the products. I have checked with a physician concerning the use of these products, and have his/her consent to do so. I hereby hold harmless Life Extension Services, and the vendors of these products from any legal actions arising in conjunction with these products. Signature Date Please feel free to copy this order form Life Extension Services 558-A Baltimore Pike, Suite 260 Bel Air, MD 21014 USA Descriptions are currently being compiled and updated. These products have not been tested by Life Extension Services. Life Extension Services will attempt to provide any information that it deems reliable on the products, but cannot warranty their fitness for a particular purpose. Actebral (DMAE) 100mg tablets $8 per 40 Produces a mild mental stimulant effect without side effects like caffeine. Aminoguanidine 300mg capsules $72 per 96 Anti-aging drug. Prevents glycolization (cross-linking) of proteins. Useful for diabetics in particular. 1 capsule per day. Amphotericin 250mg tablets $46 per 40 Arcalion (Sulbutiamine) 200mg tablets $18 per 30 Biostim 1mg tablets $15 per 8 Stimulates the immune system. 1 tablet per day. Bros (Phosphatidylserine) 100mg tabs $50 per 30 Cantor (Minaprine) 100mg tablets $17 per 20 Antidepressant and stimulant which increases sex drive in men and women. Condrosulf 400mg capsules $69 per 60 Contains condrosulphuric acid, which aids in repairing cartilage. Diapid (Vasopressin) 12ml nasal spray$25 per 12ml Increases learning, and short and long term memory. DHEA 200mg capsules $170 per 100 Anabolic hormone which promotes fat-loss and muscle growth. Also aids in memory. Eldepryl (Deprenyl) 5mg tablets $70 Antidepresssant, sexual stimulant and memory enhancer. Hydergine 1.5mg tablets $28 per 100 4.5mg tablets $28 per 28 Increases blood and oxygen to the brain. Aids in memory and learning, as well as providing protection against free radicals. Idebenone (Avan) 30mg tablets $80 per 10 L-Carnitina (Acetyl-L Carnitine) $16 per 10 Lucidril (Centrophenoxine) 250 mg tablets $8 per 60 Slows brain aging, causes excretion of lipofuschins. Melatonin 3mg capsules $19 per 100 Powerful antioxidant. Metformin HCL (Glucophage) 500mg tablets $21 per 84 Minoxidil (Rogaine) 3% solution $35 per 30ml Aids in regrowth of hair, prevents further balding. Neuromet (Oxiracetam) 800mg tablets $51 per 20 More powerful version of Nootropyl ( see piracetam) Nootropyl (Piracetam) 400mg tablets $13 per 60 800mg tablets $20 per 45 Aids in learning and recall, subjects say that it feels like it "wakes up" the brain. Olmifon (Adrafanil) tablets $16 per 40 Ordinator (Fenozolone) 10mg caps $12 per 30 Orimeten (Aminogluthemide) 250mg tablets $35 per 40 Aids in the conservation of muscle and the burning of fat. 1-2 tabs/day Oxovinca (vincamine) tablets $8 per 60 Improves memory, learning and recall. Parlodel (Bromocryptine) 2.5mg tablets $25 per 30 Powerful antioxidant and sexual stimulant, do not exceed 1 tab/day. Permixon 160mg tablets $45 per 30 Prozac 20mg tablets $50 Antidepressant. May take 2-3 weeks to take effect. Retin A 0.05% cream $22 per 20 grams Promotes increased cell turnover in the skin, reducing wrinkles, and helping acne. Ribavirin (Virazole) 100mg tablets $95 per 100 Roxithromycine 150mg tablets $44 per 10 Striadyne Forte (adenosine triphosphate) 15mg $7 per 30 Contains ATP, improves muscle strength. 2-8 tabs per day. Tamoxifen (Nolvadex) 10mg $300 per 100 Estrogen blocker. For use in breast cancer, reduces side effects of various steroids. 1 tab/day Vinpocetine 5mg tablets $58 per 100 Aids in learning and recall. Zell H3 (new KH3) tablets $45 per 120 Stimulates the immune system, reported to make one feel more vital. ------- End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------ Subject: Resource List -- more stuff From: Benjamin I Goldhagen Date: Thu, 5 May 94 5:28:45 EDT Knowledge is Strength. Wisdom is Power. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 5 May 94 5:28:45 EDT From: Benjamin I Goldhagen To: pendulum@ucar.edu Subject: Resource List -- more stuff A list of organizations and resources that might be of interest to members of the group follows. They are listed in no particular order. Eventually, a well organized list with these and other sources of information will appear on the WWW server. ******************************************************************* - NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH PUBLIC INQUIRIES - Public Inquiries of the National Institute of Mental Health assumed many of the duties of the NIMH Science Communication Branch and the National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information. It has the following specific functions: collecting scientific, technical, and other information on mental illness and health from the staff and operating components of NIMH and outside sources; classifying, storing, and retrieving information; and answering general inquiries from the public. General inquiries from the public are answered within two weeks. A publications list from NIMH is available. - 5600 Fishers Lane - Room 7C-02 - Rockville, MD 20857 - Chief - (301) 443-4513 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - CENTER FOR MEDICAL CONSUMERS AND HEALTH CARE INFORMATION - The Center for Medical Consumers and Health Care Information, a nonprofit organization established in 1976, acts as an independent source of information to enable consumers to critically evaluate information they receive from health professionals. It publishes a newsletter and provides telephone reference service. The Center maintains a free medical and health reading library designed for consumers. It contains over 1,200 books and periodicals including medical texts and journals. The library is located at the Center's offices and is open on weekdays. - 237 Thompson Street - New York, NY 10012 - Director - (212) 674-7105 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - LITHIUM INFORMATION CENTER - The Lithium Information Center was established in 1975 so that medical and allied professionals around the world can have easy access to a comprehensive collection of bibliography references on the biological and medical uses of lithium. At the Center, a computer-based storage and retrieval system, the Lithium Library, containing over 22,000 citations, is continually updated with citations of newly published journal articles, books, and pre-publication data. The Lithium Library is searchable by title, keywords, author, date, and journal. Most searches are performed within 24 hours. All researched references are available in the Lithium Information Center, and single copies are available on request. Direct access to the database is possible by computer terminal and telephone, as well. The Center is nonprofit, and is supported by grant monies, donations, and user fees. The Center has published several, and patient guides, including Lithium and Manic Depression: A Guide and Carbamazepine and Manic Depression: A Guide and Valproate and Manic Depression A Guide. - Department of Psychiatry - University of Wisc., 600 Highland Avenue - Madison, WI 53792-2475 - Information Specialist - (608) 263-6171 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - NATIONAL DEPRESSIVE AND MANIC DEPRESSIVE ASSOCIATION - The National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA) is a non-profit organization founded to provide personal support and direct services to patients with clinical or manic depression and their families. Currently NDMDA has 61 chapters throughout th U.S. and Canada. NDMDA's services include public education on depressive illness, distribution of literature , a national medical professional referral system, and support and promotion of research. NDMDA also maintains a speaker's bureau and a library including audio and video programs. NDMDA holds an annual conference to provide for communication between local chapters, general members, and the NDMDA. - P.O. Box 1939 - Chicago, IL 60690 - Information - (312) 642-0049 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - DEPRESSION AND RELATED AFFECTIVE DISORDERS ASSOCIATION - Johns Hopkins Hospital, Meyer 4-181 - 600 North Wolfe St. - Baltimore, MD 21205 - William B. Potter, President - (301) 955-4647 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER - Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training - INTRODUCTION: Supported by the City of Chicago, the State of Illinois, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Michael Reese Hospital, the Institute provides hospital and outpatient care, graduate (residency) training to University of Chicago medical school students, postgraduate (fellowship) training, and conducts research in the field of psychiatry. INTERESTS: Mental health; mental illness; psychiatry; depression; schizophrenia; adolescence; geriatrics; parenthood and mental health; career development. HOLDINGS: Library of 3,000 books. The Institute has its own computerized data base maintained through the University of Chicago Computer Center. PUBLICATIONS: Books, technical reports, journal articles, state-of-the-art reviews, critical reviews, abstracts, directories, research summaries. INFO SERVICES: Answers inquiries; provides advisory, current-awareness, and copying services; conducts research if approved by the Hospital and funding is provided; conducts seminars; evaluates data; provides information on research in progress; makes interlibrary loans; distributes publications and data compilations; makes referrals to other sources of information. Services are available to anyone; some are provided free. - 2959 South Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, IL 60616 - (312) 791-3826 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - Department of Psychiatry - Brain Research Laboratories - INTRODUCTION: The Laboratories study the diagnostic significance of brain electrical activity as related to functional impairment. INTERESTS: Electrophysiology; neurometrics; computerized classification of brain diseases; subtyping; electroencephalography; evoked responses; learning; memory; learning disability; senility; head injury; epilepsy; depression; schizophrenia; malnutrition; coma; intraoperative monitoring. HOLDINGS: Neurometric data base on the following populations: normals, learning disabled children, geriatric, schizophrenic, head injured, coma, malnourished, and pre-intra- and post-op evaluations in selected neurosurgical, neuroembolization, and cardiovascular procedures. PUBLICATIONS: Reprints. INFO SERVICES: Answers inquiries; distributes reprints. Services are free and available to those working in the field. - New York University Medical Center, 550 First Ave., New York, NY 10016 - E.R. Johns, Director - (212) 340-6287 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ENGLAND)APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY UNIT - INTRODUCTION: The Unit conducts pure and applied research on all aspects of human experimental psychology. INTERESTS: Cognitive function, normal and abnormal; psychology of language and speech; factors affecting sleep; auditory processing; computer-user interface; neuropsychology of language and memory; cognitive functioning in emotional disorders; depression; artificial intelligence; consciousness. PUBLICATIONS: Human Performance Reports (annual); abstracts. INFO SERVICES: Answers inquiries; provides advisory services; distributes publications; makes referrals to other sources of information. Services are free, except for extensive consultation or research services, and available to anyone, but priority is given to agencies of the U.K. government. - c/o Eeva Abrahams, The Library, APU, Cambridge CB2 2EF, ENGLAND - Medical Research Council - 15 Chaucer Rd. - Cambridge 355294 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - HUXLEY INSTITUTE FOR BIOSOCIAL RESEARCH/AMERICAN SCHIZOPHRENIA ASSOCIATION - INTRODUCTION: The primary function of the Institute and Association is to promote the acceptance of orthomolecular psychiatry and medicine as a necessary and valid treatment for various types of mental and physical illness, including schizophrenia and manic depression. To this end, they also conduct a referral service to connect patients with orthomolecular physicians. INTERESTS: Orthomolecular psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia and related mental disorders, as well as for alcoholism, drug addiction, hyperactivity, learning disabilities, degenerative diseases, allergies, metabolic disorders, and nutrition. HOLDINGS: A library of books, tapes, etc. pertaining to orthomolecular psychiatry and the illnesses it is used to treat. PUBLICATIONS: The Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry (quarterly); The Huxley Institute News (quarterly); reprints, bibliographies, books, films. A publications list is available. INFO SERVICES: Answers inquiries; provides reference, current-awareness (SDI), and reproduction services; provides information on research in progress; sells publications and tapes; conducts seminars; permits onsite use of collections. Services are available to anyone. A training program in orthomolecular practice and theory is conducted for physicians and allied health professionals. - 900 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, FL 33432 - (407) 393-6167 - (800) 847-3802 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - Clinical Research Center - INTERESTS: Metabolic disease; adrenal pathophysiology; inborn errors of amino acid metabolism; cardiovascular-renal disease; mineral and electrolyte disorders; disorders of purine metabolism; sickle cell disease; neuroendocrine malfunction; depression; anxiety; drug metabolism and kinetics; gastrointestinal polypeptide hormones; diabetes; endocrine tumors of pancreas; hypertension; arthritis; oncology; neurological disorders. PUBLICATIONS: Journal articles, reports. INFO SERVICES: Answers inquiries. - University of Michigan Medical Center, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - (313) 764-3240 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ASSOCIATION FOR POST NATAL ILLNESS, THE - 7 Gowan Avenue - Fulham, London SW6 - The Association is run by a Committee concerned with post-natal depression. The Association has four areas of activity: education, information, support, and research. It seeks to make women more aware of this depression without alarming them. It is hoped that women who do suffer post-natal depression will seek medical advice at an earlier time in the course of the depression if they are educated about it. - ( 1) 731-4867 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR DEPRESSIVE ILLNESS, INC - The National Foundation for Depressive Illness, Inc. (NAFDI) is a non-profit, tax-exempt corporation. NAFDI's goals are to educate the public about depressive illness, its consequences and its treatability; provide information to physicians and other professionals; and provide information and referrals to all who make requests. Additionally, NAFDI tries to encourage other professionals to enter the field and to help translate public awareness into sharply focused programs of research, education and treatment innovation. - 245 Seventh Avenue - 5th Floor - New York, NY 10001 - Information - (212) 620-7637 Voice - (800) 248-4344 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - POSTPARTUM SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL - Postpartum Support International (PSI) was formed June 26, 1987 to increase awareness in our communities about the emotional changes often experienced during pregnancy and after the arrival of the baby. Objectives of PSI are to meet and exchange information between members, encourage formation of new postpartum support groups, encourage health care professional participation, address legislative issues, encourage research, and collaboration with other related organizations; establish criteria for training; supervision and evaluation of volunteers; and address insurance coverage issues. - 927 North Kellog Avenue - Santa Barbara, CA 93111 - Co Founder - (805) 967-7636 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - National Organization for Seasonal Affective Disorders - The National Organization for Seasonal Affective Disorders (NOSAD) is a support group for individuals who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), their friends and family members, and interested professionals. NOSAD's objectives are to educate the public about the biochemical and other causes of SAD; provide information about the psychological and social consequences, as well as the treatablity, of the disorder; encourage the development and support of services to patients, families, and friends of persons suffering from this disorder; and encourage and support research into the causes and treatment of the disorder. Membership in NOSAD is open to all interested persons. - P.O. Box 40133 - Washington, DC 20016 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a network of local support groups for the mentally ill and their families. It provides information on severe mental illness and its effects on families, support for the rights of patients and families, and help in starting local groups. It advocates for research and quality services works to educate the public and public officials on the needs of the mentally ill. - 2101 Wilson Boulevard - Suite 302 - Arlington, VA 22209 - Resource Specialist - (703) 524-7600 Voice - (800) 950-6264 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) was created to improve understanding of mental health and mental illnesses and to assist people with mental illnesses and their families. Local chapters provide information services to individuals and community groups; provide volunteers for hospitals, community health centers, and other facilities serving people with mental illnesses; provide emotional support for families and assist them in learning how to help their family member; and provide assistance to school systems developing special education programs for children with mental illnesses, to providers of aftercare and rehabilitation services, and to local governments in planning and developing mental health services. State MHA chapters provide information and statistics on mental health and mental illnesses in the State; promote legislation for development and funding of State mental health services, research, and programs; and provide assistance for the development of new local chapters and for the work of established chapters. The national organization develops informational materials, lobbies for Federal mental health legislation, stimulates funding of research on the causes and treatment of mental illnesses, provides pamphlets for State and local MHAs and others, and trains MHA staff and volunteers. - 1021 Prince Street - Alexandria, VA 22314-2971 - Public Information and Education - (703) 684-7722 Voice - (800) 969-6642 Voice --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - SUICIDE PREVENTION CENTER OF LOS ANGELES - The Suicide Prevention Center of Los Angeles, formerly the Institute for Studies of Destructive Behaviors, was founded in 1958. The Center has led the nation in confronting problems of suicide and other forms of self-destructive behavior. 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Actually, I don't really know what you are talking about, at least in reference to the use of Ibogaine as an anti-addictive agent. It seems an ill-conceived idea, at best, however. My only experience with Iboga was in 1971, when, in Santa Cruz, California buying some herbs for my store in Topanga, I was offered some extract by a PhD in Pharmacology, who had just brought some back from Africa and thought I might be amused. I took a small dose, left the University, drove to Felton, picked up the shipment of herbs, drove through Ben Lomond, stopped at a closed gas station (it was midnight by then), hosed myself down with water (it was full moon and my skin was starting to crinkle iguana-like from moonburn), and pasted some aluminum foil around the edges of my van's windows to keep down the burning light. I knew, all the while, that it was self-indulgent, but did this anyway...can never be too careful about that moonlight, you know! By dawn I was all the way back down the Pacific Coast Highway to LA County and my skin was pretty much returned to normal. I had figured out a number of arcane explanations to give friends and customers for my lizard skin, only to find that it didn't really have the texture of dried-mud-flat-in-the-sun by daybreak (the ibogaine had worn off, of course). And this was only a small amount of the plant (or so I was told). Yes, I had the "learned" response of the psychotropic hippie, yes, it was a crude pharmaceutic preparation and not the actual plant, but I can see NO WAY IN THE WORLD this stuff could be of any help to those attempting to wean themselves from the chosen addictives of the nineties....no way! Michael (learn from your elders, kids) Moore ------------------------------ Subject: Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! From: Michael Moore Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 21:39:54 MDT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 21:39:54 MDT From: Michael Moore To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! >What did the person recommending Iboga say it was for, what was it >supposed to do? As I remember, the learned gentleman's comment went something like..."Try this stuff, Michael...it's really GRREEAAT shit!" Remember, this was the early 70s, and there was no pretense that taking Iboga had any more purpose than genial titilation. We were not ingesting the substance with any ritual intent, we were simply sampling another culture's intoxicant. The fact that it gave me brain weavels was not a problem: what KIND of brain weavels was the question, and, for myself, the question was adequately answered. I am not defending anything here; the intent was to get stoned. Like most things we all tried back then, it would not bear repeating. The reason why the whole drug "movement" (g) failed was that most of us got bored and went our way, a few of us found a golden teat and never emerged again (or only to score). It thinned the herd, but at a great social cost that is still being paid. This is why I get feeling creepy when I see a bunch of silver-spooned middle-class white kids following around the several "ritual-plant" gurus, convinced that, by taking the sacramental plants of other (vanishing) cultures they are, in fact, having shamanic experiences, and not simply getting stoned. I think the term here is Hubris...and a maddening innocence. Michael ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Ginko Biloboa From: Mitch Bebel Stargrove Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 22:09:07 -0700 knowledge is strength ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 22:09:07 -0700 From: Mitch Bebel Stargrove To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: Ginko Biloboa IBIS, the Interactive BodyMind Information System, has the folllowing about Ginkgo: % botanical name(s): Ginkgo biloba % synonyms: ginkgo tree, maidenhair tree % part(s) used: leaves and nut % qualities: bitter, neutral; associated with Mercury % affinities: % actions: > nut: expectorant, stops discharges > leaves: relaxation of blood vessels, antioxidant, inhibits platelet aggregation, increases peripheral and cerebral blood flow, cardiovascular tonic, brain tonic % dosage: note: the clinical research on efficacy of Ginkgo all utilized extracts which are standardized to 24% of the heteroside flavonoids. In order to get a therapeutically effective concentration of flavonoids from an alcohol tincture of Ginkgo, the equivalent dose of 1 oz. q.d. would contain tannins in concentrations able to cause gastrointestinal distress. > tincture: 1 - 4 ml.; see above note > powder: 400 - 1600 mg > capsules: 2 - 4 up to t.i.d. % therapy: > nut: wheezing and coughing with sputum, leukorrhea, urinary incontinence > leaves: arterial insufficiency, ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease (it affects both arteries and veins); failing mental faculties; tinnitus % toxicity: 1; see tannin toxidrome % constituents: lignans, flavonoids, mainly flavone glycosides; terpenes, traces of essential oil, tannins, organic acids, carotenoids % no contraindications, although a case was reported of an increase in preexisting hypotension % handling of the fresh fruit may cause contact dermatitis due to its phenolic compounds (Baer, p. 165 (Kinghorn); Muenscher, p. 12) % improperly prepared fruits or seeds may act as a nauseant, and damage the liver and kidneys (Westbrooks and Preacher, p. 6; Altonen) for more info on IBIS, practitioners can contact GAIA Multimedia at amrtaoffice@igc.apc.org or cal 1-800-627-6851 this is a non-profit medical research and education association ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Ginko Biloboa From: Michael Moore Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 23:55:51 MDT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 23:55:51 MDT From: Michael Moore To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: Ginko Biloboa >note: the clinical research on efficacy of Ginkgo all utilized >extracts which are standardized to 24% of the heteroside >flavonoids. In order to get a therapeutically effective >concentration of flavonoids from an alcohol tincture of Ginkgo, >the equivalent dose of 1 oz. q.d. would contain tannins in >concentrations able to cause gastrointestinal distress. Sorry, but I beg to differ with you. Most of the original French clinical trials were, in fact, made with a pure ethanolic 1:5 extract of the leaves, using a percolated product, and STILL show better results, especially with tinnitis, than the "Standardized" European pharmaceuticals. As a "green" herbalist, who feels only connected to plants that I can personally get my grubbies on, I revel in this little fact. In reality, some botanicals are better dispensed in "standardized" pharmaceuticals, but, since this takes away the whole point of being an herbalist, (my definition) i avoid using plants that need pharmaceutical reductionism. They may be perfectly fine medicines, and, because they come from plants, I am likely to view them fondly, BUT THEY AINT HERBS! Ginkgo biloba, however, for most of its proven uses, does fine in crude, non-pharmaceutical, non-standardized, galenic preparations. If you wish the specific study citations, I would be glad to supply them, direct from Farnsworth's database, NAPRALERT. Further, the tendency to use Ginkgo in a frivolous fashion, i.e. to compensate for poor study habits in undergraduate students by acting as an alleged "brain food" is likely, for many, to induce a frontal headache...from increased interocular pressure. This doesn't show up on the European studies, using whatever plant source, because these studies were made with folks who NEEDED the cerebral vasodilation effects, even with the several control-group studies. Ginkgo was NOT studied in regards its effects on perfectly normal, cerebral-competent folks looking for "brain-food", and reluctant to admit that they hadn't studied the boring shit they were supposed to be responsible for. Some third-year medical students here in Albuquerque tried Ginkgo in cramming for their orals...and got headaches. So it goes. Michael ------------------------------ Subject: Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! From: Michael Moore Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 21:39:54 MDT ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 May 94 23:47:17 EDT From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: rosaphil@mindvox.phantom.com Subject: Returned mail: User unknown ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to world.std.com: >>> RCPT To: <<< 550 ... User unknown 550 lnr@world.std.com... User unknown ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: Received: by mailhost.phantom.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11028; Fri, 27 May 94 23:47:17 EDT Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 23:47:17 -0400 (EDT) From: anna yamada Subject: Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! (fwd) To: lnr@world.std.com Cc: walkers@world.std.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 21:39:54 MDT From: Michael Moore To: Multiple recipients of list HERB Subject: Re: IBOGAINE--PHOOEY!!!! >What did the person recommending Iboga say it was for, what was it >supposed to do? As I remember, the learned gentleman's comment went something like..."Try this stuff, Michael...it's really GRREEAAT shit!" Remember, this was the early 70s, and there was no pretense that taking Iboga had any more purpose than genial titilation. We were not ingesting the substance with any ritual intent, we were simply sampling another culture's intoxicant. The fact that it gave me brain weavels was not a problem: what KIND of brain weavels was the question, and, for myself, the question was adequately answered. I am not defending anything here; the intent was to get stoned. Like most things we all tried back then, it would not bear repeating. The reason why the whole drug "movement" (g) failed was that most of us got bored and went our way, a few of us found a golden teat and never emerged again (or only to score). It thinned the herd, but at a great social cost that is still being paid. This is why I get feeling creepy when I see a bunch of silver-spooned middle-class white kids following around the several "ritual-plant" gurus, convinced that, by taking the sacramental plants of other (vanishing) cultures they are, in fact, having shamanic experiences, and not simply getting stoned. I think the term here is Hubris...and a maddening innocence. Michael ------------------------------ Subject: Protest for Betak, Pennsylvania AIDS Nursing Home From: "Russell Johannesson" Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 23:43:13 -0500 (EST) Report from Betak on Saturday, May 28, 1994 Today, I visited Betak, the only AIDS nursing home in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. About twelve members of We The People with AIDS/HIV in the Delaware Valley, Inc., have pitched tents outside the home in an effort to ensure that it will not close, as nursing home officials said it would. Many of the people in the encampment are also on juice and water fasts and have been since Monday, May 23, 1994. Although most of them have severely compromised immune systems and a variety of related illnesses, they are exposing themselves to adverse weather conditions and malnutrition because they know of no other way to force governmental attention to funding for Betak. Nursing home officials have threatened closure due to the inadequate level of reimbursement that they receive for patient care from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It generally costs much more to care for a patient with AIDS in a nursing home setting than it does for other kinds of patients. Many other states and commonwealths reimburse nursing homes at a different rate for AIDS patients than they do for other patients. Pennsylvania does not. Due to this insufficient funding, Betak periodically has fiscal shortages and must threaten to close. Many people at the encampment one day expect to have to use Betak. Perhaps this reality fuels their determination to continue their protest, despite its obvious potential to induce illness. More than anything, the protestors would like for concerned people to visit them at Betak, which is located at 7141 McCallum Street in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia. By public transportation, you can travel to Betak by taking the H bus westward from the northwest corner of the instersection of Broad and Erie Streets. After about a twenty minute ride, the bus will arrive at the intersection of Mt. Pleasant Avenue and McCallum Street. Disembark at this stop and walk two blocks further down McCallum Street until you reach Mt. Airy Avenue. Betak is the large building on your right. Another public transportation option is to take the R8 train to the Allen Lane stop and walk a number of blocks. The charge for the train is $2.50 off-peak. I do not know the exact path from the train station to Betak. Call SEPTA for more information at (215) 580-7800. The protestors are also asking for donations of money, juices, water, ice, blankets, warm clothes, and board games. They are also looking for people to join the encampment and the hunger strike. Call We The People with AIDS/HIV in the Delaware Valley, Inc., at (215) 545-6868, for more information. We will also discuss the situation at the next ACT UP meeting, Monday, May 30, 1994, at 7:30 p.m. at the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany at 330 South Thirteenth Street in Center City Philadelphia. If you want to make a donation but cannot go to the site, you can call ACT UP at (215) 731-1844 or call We The People. BETAK WILL NOT CLOSE!